Bugis Chieftain's Keris: does it exist?

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Originally Posted by Alam Shah

Have done that.. all the way to the royal house of Bone and Makassar... If fact, awaiting inputs...

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...but the caveat here again is that this may be a localise evolution of the basic Bugis form, influence perhaps by the context of the then existing socio circumstances that differs form the Sulawesi homeground and areas outside of the Malay Peninsula, Johor Riau Islands and southern Sumatra. So, the absence of verification from these personages from these other areas may not necessarily indicate the absence of the Chieftain form itself...